manhattan project

I think we can all agree that the physicists, engineers, and chemists who worked on the Manhattan Project — which ultimately ended World War II — were consummate geniuses and paragons of professionalism. Except they weren’t. The demon core of plutonium claimed numerous lives at Los Alamos due to sloppy science.

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